Thu.Aug 08, 2019

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Which Categories of Seed Startups are Thriving? Which Aren't?

Tomasz Tunguz

Which sectors see more startup company formation than others? The answer has changed quite a bit over the last 8 years. Some sectors have hit their apogee and are declining. Others have grown by more than 3x. Yet others are growing geometrically. Let’s take a look. Hot Spaces. Artificial Intelligence - yes, it’s a buzzword but it’s more than that.

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 Child Care & Coworking part 2

GCUC

A continuation of part one… Just to recap…. In every facebook group, forum, contact form and unconference- Coworking and childcare comes up. While most of us agree that it is needed and the next step in the “co” nich movement- there is a real lack of information around it. Out of our own curiosity, we polled some of the founders in our international circle that have or are building spaces with child care offerings to get there take on it all.

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Streaks

A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

Seth Godin says it so well in this blog post celebrating his 11th anniversary of writing every day on his personal blog. Streaks are their own reward. Streaks create internal pressure that keeps streaks going. Streaks require commitment at first, but then the commitment turns into a practice, and the practice into a habit. Habits are much easier to maintain than commitments.

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[WayUp in CNBC] Over 100,000 students voted on the No. 1 internship of 2019—and it isn’t Google or Facebook

OurCrowd

Google and Facebook offer some of the most sought-after internships and jobs in the world. But when career site WayUp surveyed over 100,000 students and considered thousands of employers, they found that it’s actually SAP that offers the best internship of 2019. Read more here. The post [WayUp in CNBC] Over 100,000 students voted on the No. 1 internship of 2019—and it isn’t Google or Facebook appeared first on OurCrowd.

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From Curiosity to Competitive Edge: How Mid-Market CEOs Are Using AI to Scale Smarter

Speaker: Lee Andrews, Founder at LJA New Media & Tony Karrer, Founder and CTO at Aggregage

This session will walk you through how one CEO used generative AI, workflow automation, and sales personalization to transform an entire security company—then built the Zero to Strategy framework that other mid-market leaders are now using to unlock 3.5x ROI. As a business executive, you’ll learn how to assess AI opportunities in your business, drive adoption across teams, and overcome internal resource constraints—without hiring a single data scientist.

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Does your board give you good advice?

Berkonomics

This may be news, but boards of directors can offer bad advice. Having served on more than forty boards, I’ve seen such a variety of good and bad advice that my stories could fill a book. (oh, wait. They have…) So, lets delve into board composition, risk of an unbalanced board, and one of those stories…. The composition of your board matters. A typical board is composed of five persons in a company that has received outside funds from professional investors.

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Have You Checked Your Business Credit Recently? 

Smart Hustle Magazine

Business credit is so important and it's much different than personal credit. Gerri Detweiler is the Education Director at Nav and chats with Ramon Ray on the importance of business credit. . Business vs Personal Credit . Did you know your business can have its own credit report and score? What’s different about business and personal credit, is that no one has to get your permission to check your business credit.